the installation of Cinelerra seems to be confusing to new Linux (Mint) users. Many people want to use Cinelerra because it's very powerful and is nearly the only PROFESSIONAL video editing software. A little notice: For professional video editing you should use a combination of for example Kino and Cinelerra. That's why I'll explain how you can install Kino, too.

What we do here is installing the Cinelerra community version (CV) http://cinelerra.org/. There are no real difference to the "normal" version for the end-user. The CV-team just made it easier to setup the software.

1. Adding the PPA repository to Linux Mint

Adding a PPA repository to Linux Mint means that you expand the synaptic software pool from your OS. In our case we give Linux Mint the possibility to install cinelerra. We have to tell the OS where he can find the needed files. Adding the PPA goes like this:

Kino is also a video editing program. But it's more for common use. But you can add text boxes and such things which you couldn't do so easily in Cinelerra. So use Cinelerra for the final cut and for the rest take Kino.

That's it.

Know you should have two buttons in your menu in the categorie "multimedia". Have fun!

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"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect."- Linus Torvalds Interview with David Diamond, September the 28th 2003

Nice one thanks, been looking for something I may be able to use instead of adobe, I WANT the best from both worlds LINUX and something like adobe or avid, hope it comes upto some thing decent, not expecting 100% but hey ho time will tell